Port-au-Prince

At the age of forty five Mireille Marcelin was in the People magazine. The April issue was before me ss I thumbed through the magazine in the coffee shop of Barnes and Noble. Emotion was really what it was all about. It was a very good issue. I decided to buy it!

A very devastating story was there in the magazine. I read of a hillside outside Port-au-Prince. Girls were in crisp dresses and bobby socks. Notebooks were clutched in their hands.

It was two week after the quake. Mireille Marcelin got Bazilo Ecocole Communautane up and running. It was a very brave mission to take on. Many were devastated. There was much to take on. Was there enough?

Thre was a tuition to thnk about for the school she decided to take into her own hands. Tuition was waived. Mireille Marcelin at least had that much in the bank. Students from destroyed schools were welcomed in a private elementary school where money was spent for food for children. Mireille Marcelin drained her life savings to sadly only be able to fee one hundred thirty three of the devastated children.

Many of these children lost parents and homes. Peace and order was needed to heal and make heroes. There were many of those who knew how to make a difference in devastation.

Classes were held outside due to a damaged building. It really was a sacrifice. Teachers worked without pay. They drilled students in French. Math was drilled also. Donated books were used as well as rare precious pencils. Chalkboards were used as tables at lunch. The children were very hungry.

Marcelin dished out spaghetti and rice for the anguished children. Houses had been destroyed. Unfortunately, families had to live in tents. Madame Marcelin was brought to be more of a mother than a teacher at times. Children that had parents were left. There was a lot of sad crying and aloneness.

This is the devastation out in Port-au-Prince.

It really is more traumatic for the victims than can be seen or described. Do these families forever have to hold it deep inside? How much do they hide? There was much love out there and it was lost. Children and families need to find new love and compassion. It is a prayer to God over to heal wounds over what these families and children cry.

Bible Baptist Church in Highland, Indiana of the United States of America opened my eyes to the topic. The article would not have been read by me in People magazine if a wonderful woman in the church didn't start pouring her heart out about Haiti to me. I would not of even noticed what was going on.

There is so much devastation in America. May individuals and God place their hearts and eyes on Port-au-Prince as well. These families are still really deprived. It was nothing for me to go through the snow and frost to drive to Bible Baptist Church where Baptists were looking for donations and caring hearts for devastation in Haiti.

What do we all hold deep down inside? May it all turn to love and generosity. Port-au-Prince is deprived. There are many out there working very hard for free and with their life savings as well. Let us all have some sort of something to give. Whatever it may be.

Children out in Port-au-Prince need love. May it come from you. Ask others for that love too.